Pakistan: Thirteen terrorists killed in IED blunder

At least thirteen terrorists were killed when explosives stored in one of their hideouts in Bannu district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) went off on Sunday. In a separate incident, another terrorist was eliminated during a gun battle in Dera Ismail Khan. Read More …

Utah: Two men arrested for allegedly planting, lighting bomb under news media vehicle

Two men allegedly planted a bomb underneath a news van in Utah on Friday and tried to ignite it, sparking a massive evacuation and federal probe. Adeeb Nasir, 58, and Adil Justice Ahme Nasir, 31, were each arrested Sunday when Read More …

Philippines: Army slams NPAs for stockpiling IEDs near Butuan community

The Philippine Army’s 48th Infantry Battalion (48IB) denounced the communist New People’s Army (NPA) for endangering residents by stockpiling improvised explosive devices (IEDs) close to a community in Butuan City. The 48IB troopers recovered the explosives in Purok 6, Barangay Read More …

Pennsylvania: 14 explosives discovered prompt emergency evacuation in Lebanon County community

More than a dozen explosives were seized from a Lebanon County home Tuesday, leading to an evacuation order for the community, according to the District Attorney’s Office. Timothy Sheaffer Jr., 40, of Columbia, was charged with weapons of mass destruction, Read More …

Northern Ireland: Man arrested in Belfast following security alert

A man has been arrested on suspicion of possessing and making explosives after a security alert in Belfast. Police were searching a property at Bentham Drive, off Sandy Row in the city yesterday when they found several suspicious objects. Army bomb Read More …

New Zealand: Huntly man built pipe bomb to scare off ‘undesirable’ neighbours

After having his belongings stolen, and the windows of his car and Kāinga Ora home smashed, Warren John Frederick Lee had had enough. The 76-year-old former quarry worker decided to make a pipe bomb, with enough ammonia to damage everything Read More …

Pakistan: Explosion partially damages girls’ primary school in Lakki Marwat

An explosion at a girls’ primary school in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat district partially damaged the building, though no casualties were reported, police said on Sunday. DPO Khan further said that there were two IEDs planted in the school. “One Read More …

India: One person arrested after four hand grenades, IED recovered in Punjab’s Batala

Batala police arrested a suspect linked to a Pakistan-backed terror module, seizing grenades and explosives, disrupting a cross-border conspiracy. The Batala police on Monday unearthed a Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence-backed terror module with the arrest of one person and seized four Read More …

Vermont: Explosives triggered evacuations and road closure in Burlington

Police say explosive devices discovered at a Burlington apartment building triggered evacuations and an hourslong road closure in the city. A Burlington man is in jail for allegedly building bombs. And that’s what sparked a massive response from local, state Read More …

New York: Walton man arrested on charges of an explosive device

A Walton man has been arrested on charges of allegedly being in possession of an explosive device, drugs and a firearm. The Delaware County Sheriff’s Office Road Patrol Division responded to reports of an individual threatening self-harm on August 6th. Read More …

AFP bomb squad crafts IEDs to stay ahead of bad guys

Inside an electronics workshop in Australia’s capital territory there is a team of tech experts building bombs from scratch. They’re not terrorists; rather, a team of elite specialists making improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and then blowing them up. The mission Read More …

Pakistan: More than 30 terrorists killed while assembling IED inside a mosque in Bajaur

More than 30 suspected terrorists were killed when an improvised explosive device (IED) they were assembling inside a mosque in Bajaur district went off on Thursday. The incident came hours after at least 15 suspected terrorists were eliminated in an Read More …

British Columbia: RCMP and Nelson police safely dispose of improvised explosive device

A live improvised explosive device (IED) was disposed of in Nelson earlier today after a city youth unwittingly brought it back from a recent visit to Trail. On Wednesday afternoon the RCMP explosives disposal unit (EDU) attended the scene — Read More …

Colorado Springs police searching home connected to incendiary device found during traffic stop

Police in Colorado Springs were searching a home on the east side of the city Monday morning tied to an incendiary device found during a traffic stop last week. Last Thursday, the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) said Anthony Lopez Read More …

California: Evacuation warnings issued in Weaverville after pipe bomb was found in public forest

Authorities in Trinity County located a homemade pipe bomb left in a public forest Wednesday, officials announced. A community member in the small Northern California town of Weaverville reported a “suspicious item” in the Community Forest south of downtown on Read More …

Northern Ireland: Man arrested after ‘multiple viable devices discovered’ in Co Tyrone

One man, aged in his 30s, was arrested on suspicion of possessing explosives under suspicious circumstances as residents were forced to spend the night away from their homes after a security alert in Co Tyrone. Emergency services were called to Read More …

New Jersey: Bucks County man charged after explosive device detonates at former supervisor’s driveway

Michael Patrick Takacs Jr., 43, of Warminster, is facing several charges including unlawfully possessing and transporting an explosive device which caused serious damage to his former supervisor’s vehicle. According to New Jersey’s District Attorney’s Office, around July 26 at approximately Read More …

Tennessee man arrested after officers find 14 IEDs inside home

A Tennessee man was taken into custody Friday after authorities allege he threatened to kill public officials and law enforcement and was then discovered with 14 improvised explosive devices in his home when investigators arrived to arrest him. Kevin Wade Read More …

Michigan man sentenced for traveling with explosive devices to Massachusett

A 31-year-old man has been sentenced for traveling with several explosive devices from Michigan to Massachusetts, federal officials said on Friday. A judge sentenced Luke Isaac Terpstra to three years in prison, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Read More …

Singapore: Fewer than 1 in 5 people noticed suspicious items during Ministry of Home Affairs’s social experiments

More than 2,500 people in Tampines and Bishan walked past a black suitcase and a black car with a concealed number plate, but fewer than 500 of them noticed the suspicious objects. Even fewer of them either intended to or Read More …